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The Houston Astros built a nine-run lead and held on for a 10-7 win over NY and a doubleheader split Sunday. "He retired with a franchise-best 3,465 hits - sixth on baseball's all-time list - having played more seasons (20) and games (2,747) than any other Yankee". Read More »

Captain Wayne Rooney led a minute's silence in memory of the victims in training before their flight to Sweden, while the club cancelled a pre-match press conference. Not only will the winning team get their hands on a European title, but will also gain direct entry into next season's Champions League group stage. It is hard to think of anything as trivial as football - and it does become trivial when you think of what happened at the Manchester Arena - when your community has just been ... Read More »

In exchange, Los Angeles Stadium will host Super Bowl LVI in 2022 instead. "The Tampa Bay area has enjoyed great success over the years hosting Super Bowls and we look forward to working with our local leaders in the coming months to meet the requirements for hosting Super Bowl LV in 2021", Bucs co-chairman Bryan Glazer said in a statement. Read More »

Moody's said it expects that the strength financially of the economy in China will erode during the next few years as its growth will slow and debut will continue rising. China has joined countries such as Japan and Israel on the Aa3 credit rating; Moody's also iterated that the rising debt on the country weakens its economy. Read More »

A substantial additional cut was unlikely, one OPEC delegate said, "unless Saudi Arabia initiates it with the biggest contribution and is supported by other Gulf members ". Since the US shale oil boom began at the start of this decade, imports have fallen sharply - sometimes to as low as 7 million bpd, from as high as 10 million bpd in the middle of the last decade. Read More »

Forsberg tied the game at one with his goal at the 3:54 mark of the third period. The No. 8 seed in the West, the Predators stole home ice from Anaheim by squeezing out a 3-2 overtime victory in Game 1 on a goal by James Neal to win their third consecutive series opener on the road and improve to 9-2 in the postseason. Read More »

The defensive-minded Senators outshot the Penguins 35-28. The Penguins had every reason to be confident. Now they're in the NHL's final four for the first time in a decade and aren't being given much of a chance against the dynamic Cup champions, who played their best game of the postseason in a Game 7 victory over the Capitals. Read More »

Mourinho hailed his players for the attitude they showed as they came through to seal a spot in a final he feels can be a "perfect" end to the season, with Champions League football on offer for the victor in Stockholm. "When I personally analyse, I don't think that way". We miss a lot of players, also Marcos Rojo , Ibrahimovic, Luke Shaw , Ashley Young , but it's a big challenge to win the trophy for these players. Read More »

If the champ's sheer dominance didn't seem to faze the confident Andrade coming into the scrap, it became apparent as she failed to produce offense throughout. Jedrzejczyk is doing a good job of keeping Andrade at bay. "Championship rounds are different and not so numerous fighters can stand this", said Jedrzejczyk said. Read More »

Vettel seized the initiative by passing pole-sitter Hamilton into Turn One but Mercedes turned the tables by switching strategies and pitting their driver for the second time under the virtual safety vehicle. Last year's victor in Spain, Max Verstappen, was always unlikely to reprise his heroics this season, but to not make it out of the first lap would have been a bitter disappointment. Read More »

Arsenal can, however, win the FA Cup for the third time in four years when they face Chelsea in the final on May 27 but Sanchez remains uncertain if that would make the season a success. If they like that I carry on, or they don't. "I think the players have the desire and mentality". The duo have been responsible for 74 of Arsenal's goals this season. Read More »

Nadal, though, won their only previous meeting on clay at the Rome Masters a year ago. "Maybe I was lucky the roof closed", Djokovic said. "If we both play well ... Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas recovered from losing the second set 6-0 to beat Benoit Paire and will meet Germany's Alexander Zverev , a 6-4 6-4 victor over Tomas Berdych . Read More »

It was not until the last sixteenth of a mile that Leparoux realized he had company. Brown was non-committal about the likelihood of Cloud Computing's turning out again for next month's Belmont Stakes . He'd won his first four by a combined 23 1/4 lengths. "Of course", he said. "I think he's going to be tougher to beat than I thought he would be going into the Derby". Read More »

Here is how it happened. Nadal held his serve to love in the ensuing game to move ahead at 6-5, and Thiem drove on to the tiebreak despite his opponent's best efforts to avoid any need with a last-ditch break attempt. It's true that some matches are more important than others. Nadal pulled off a running forehand victor, and Djokovic hit wide to concede the break again. Read More »

This comes in light of Monday's terrorist attack in the city which killed 22 people and injured numerous others. Josh Harrop introduced himself to Old Trafford in some style as the debutant's stunning strike set the youngest Manchester United team in Premier League history on course for victory against Crystal Palace . Read More »

Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny will serve a three-match ban and miss Saturday's FA Cup final against Chelsea after the Football Association rejected an appeal of wrongful dismissal. Arsenal are short of defenders after Gabriel sustained a knee injury against Everton and Wenger confirmed the Brazilian would be out for six to eight weeks. Read More »

The Frenchman, who has yet to reveal if he will sign a new contract to extend his 21-year reign, could still finish the season with silverware as Arsenal face Chelsea in the FA Cup final next Saturday. "Before, we were never in the Champions League , and now we have been there six or seven times in a row". However, it was nothing more than the long-serving defender deserved after all of his loyal service to the club he first joined as a 14-year-old raw talent. Read More »

He also urged people without a ticket for the match between Ajax and Manchester United to "avoid turning up" at the Friends Arena in Solna, just outside of the Swedish capital. Although Ajax go into Wednesday's match as underdogs, coach Peter Bosz says that means the pressure will be off. "I am deeply saddened by the frightful terrorist attack in Manchester last night", Ceferin said. Read More »

Atletico have now reached at least the semi-finals of the European Cup in three of the last four seasons, however, and Torres has said that the club "have taken another step in belief" as they bid to finally land the title. Karim Benzema showed great bits of skill to skip the attention of three Atletico defenders before setting up Toni Kroos, whose shot was stopped by Jan Oblak, only for Isco to bundle the ball in from close range. Read More »

The Red Devils know that winning that game is their last remaining hope of securing Champions League qualification for next season. But which player would not want to stay at Manchester United? The goalkeeper in both finals, Edwin Van der Sar, recently returned to the club as chief executive, while Marc Overmars is also back at the Amsterdam Arena as director of football. Read More »

If that's the case, the Celtics will need to perform just as well as they did in Game 3, if not better, for Tuesday's contest. The Boston Celtics stunned the Cleveland Cavaliers by winning Game 3. Lue chuckled before the game when he was asked if he planned to say anything to James following his sub-standard performance in Game 3. "No message", Lue said. Read More »

Instead, it chose to move the game to Tampa, runner-up to Los Angeles in the bidding. But unlike other recent sporting event headlines from Tampa Bay, this week's Super Bowl news did not prompt claims of robust economic impact to the region. Read More »

Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez is also said to be a top target as he continues to stall on a new deal, but it has been suggested Bayern Munich have already opened talks and are favourites to do a deal. Everyone wants him now because it's easier to pay that money now rather than if he had three years left on his contract. "He is doing a great job at Arsenal ". Read More »

At one point, he fell on his ankle and seemed to tweak it in pain, yet played on like a trooper and helped led this team one game closer to the promised land with a spectacular 15 of 22 shooting performance, with 4/7 from deep and 8 of 9 from the charity stripe to go. Read More »

TNT's " Inside the NBA " postgame show has won a host of awards over the years, thanks in large part to the entertainment value provided by the cast of Ernie Johnson, Charles Barkley , Kenny Smith and Shaquille O'Neal. And [Lakers forward] Rick Fox . Then Shaq said people question why Barkley was in the Hall of Fame anyhow, called him a bum, and threatened to "punch [ Barkley ] right in [his] face". Read More »